24.06.1812

09.07.1812

29.09.1812

Napoleon invades Russia

Stanhope : unique epileptic seizure on Sicily

Kaspar Hauser born in Karlsruhe as Crown Prince of  Baden, son of  Grand Duke  Karl and  Stephanie Beauharnais

News of his birth taken to Napoleon in Moscow

16.10.1812

Kaspar “exchanged” with Jakob Ernst Blochmann , whose father was a servant of the Countess Hochberg

16.10.1812

Official death of the unnamed Crown Prince (“Gaspard”!) following an emergency baptism

       - 18.01.1815

Kaspar with the Blochmann family until the death of Frau Blochmann

1815/1816

Kaspar at Schloss Beuggen (usufruct of Countess Hochberg ) with nurse Anna Dalbonne (12/2001 discovery of the red horse drawing  in a secret room)

23.10.1816

Bottle message found at Laufenburg am Rhein: “ S. HANES SPRANCIO ” =  “SEIN SOHN CASPAR” (His son Caspar ); Stanhope in Vienna with Gentz

1817-1828

1817

1818

1821

1825

26.03.1827

Kaspar at Schloss Pilsach , Nurmberg (13.03.1982 discovery of a wooden horse toy); owned by Major von Griesenbeck

Death of Kaspar's younger brother infant Alexander (12 months); poisoning suspected

Death of Grand Duke Karl , Kaspar's father, who suspected poisoning

Death of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena

Ludwig I becomes King of Bavaria

Beethoven dies

NUREMBERG

26.05.1828

Whit Monday: Kaspar appears in Unschlitt (Candlewax) Square, “I want to be a cavalryman like my father”

      - 17.07.1828

Kaspar transferred to a gaol in Luginsland Tower under supervision of gaoler Hiltel

28.05.1828

Kaspar examined by  Dr. Preu

11.07.1828

Kaspar visited by  Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, President of the Court of Appeal, Ansbach

14.07.1828

Publication of Kaspar's appearance by Mayor Binder  07.07.1828: "The Child of Europe"

18.07.1828

Kaspar's accommodation, education, research and socialisation with Prof. Daumer

00.11.1828

19.11.1828

Kaspar begins his autobiography; all events in his life covered in Press

Schubert dies

17.10.1829

Lord Stanhope appears at Hotel “Zum Wilden Mann”, (The Wild Man) No interest shown in  K.H.

17.10.1829

Murder attempt on Kaspar's life in Daumer's house; two police guards posted from now on

30.01.1830

Kaspar's accommodation with the merchant family the Biberbachs

03.1830

Kaspar spends 7 Weeks studying bookbinding

27.03.1830

Efforts to trace Kaspar's possible Hungarian and Polish roots by Prussian officer von Pirch

03.04.1830

30.03.1830

Kaspar: Pistol shot at the Biberbachs' house

Death of Grand Duke Ludwig of Baden ; emergency Privy Council Meeting; Grand Duke Leopold (Hochberg) accedes

00.07.1830

Publication of Police commissioner Merker: “ Kaspar Hauser not unlikely a fraud”

15.07.1830

Kaspar: accommodation with his guardian Baron Gottlieb von Tucher

July Revolution breaks out in Paris ; Charles X replaced by Louis Phillippe

28.05.1831

Lord Stanhope reappears in Nuremberg , seeks out Kaspar via banker Merkel

04.07.1831

Kaspar: Trip to Hungary as “ Karl Heinlein ” with Tucher & Hickel to discover his origins; Stanhope in Munich

10.07.1831

05.09.1831

Trip broken off without result in Pressburg; Stanhope in Stuttgart ; receives more money

Stanhope returns to Nuremberg

14.11.1831

21.11.1831

Hegel dies in cholera epidemic, Berlin

Lord Stanhope applies to become foster-father

24.11.1831

Tucher relinquishes his guardianship despite concerns about "corrupting influence" of Stanhope

25.11.1831

Handover of responsibility of education to Stanhope

29.11.1831

Kaspar leaves  Tucher's house with Stanhope

ANSBACH

01.12.1831

Kaspar arrives in Ansbach with Lord Stanhope

02.12.1831

Mayor Binder becomes guardian

10.12.1831

27.12.1831

Kaspar: Accommodation and study with "teacher" Johann Georg Meyer , who is paid by Stanhope

Darwin sets out on the "Beagle"

04.01.1832

Feuerbach's diary: “I have discovered Kaspar Hauser`s probable origin to be Prince of the House of Baden...”

00.01.1832

Feuerbach completes “Example of a Crime against the Soul of a Human Being”; dedicated to Stanhope

19.01.1832

Stanhope's (final) farewell and departure

19.02.1832

22.03.1832

Feuerbach 's secret memorandum to Queen Caroline of Bavaria (Kaspar's aunt): “Who might   Kaspar Hauser indeed be?”

Death of Goethe

05.04.1832

Granduchess Stephanie & her daughters Josephine and Marie secretly observe Kaspar in Ansbach Palace Garden

01.12.1832

Kaspar works as clerk at the Court of Appeal

20.05.1833

Kaspar: Confirmation by Pastor Fuhrmann at the Swan Knight's Chapel, St Gumbertus church, Ansbach

29.05.1833

Sudden death of Feuerbach in Frankfurt ; he suspects foul play: "I've been given poison."

14.12.1833

Kaspar fatally stabbed in the Palace Garden , mirror writing on paper: “M.L.Ö.”

16./18.12.1833

False death certificate Nr. 342 issued at evangelical  church Karlsruhe :  “ Kaspar Ernst Blochmann ” died in Munich 27.11; 16th: Stanhope writes last letter to Kaspar: 'see you soon'

17.12.1833

Kaspar dies in   Meyer 's house

19.12.1833

1834-36

Post mortem report:  Dr. Albert, Dr. Horlacher and Dr. Heidenreich

Various anti-Kaspar publications appear instigated by Stanhope, incl Stanhope's own "Tracts relating to Kaspar Hauser " in German  (1835) & English (1836) 

1848-49  Revolutions throughout Germany and Europe

1866: Austro-Prussian War

1933: Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

The 2nd Attack with "Mirror Writing" ( Der Spiegel )

25.11.1996

DNA-Analysis in "Der Spiegel” magazine: “The Dis-enchanted Prince” - “ Gene researchers solve a century-old riddle”. "Spiegel" later holds press conference in the Hofgarten, Ansbach, where Kaspar was stabbed

New Scientific Evidence

       17.08.2002

ARTE-TV broadcast “The Murder of  Kaspar Hauser”: First revelation of the results of a second DNA analysis -  of Kaspar's hair (Forensic medicine Institute Münster) and the discovery of the drawing at Schloss Beuggen